Earloom

SIR – I was interested to read of Richard Wales’s £1,000 fine for trying to sell a tiger’s head on Gumtree (report, April 20).

In 1941, my mother bought an elephant’s ear coffee table in a London junk shop. This table crossed the Atlantic six times with my father’s various postings and remained part of our family’s furniture until we downsized in 2016.

There was no room for the table in our new home, so I considered selling it on ebay. But, overcome by irrational sentiment, I burned it instead, ensuring that somewhere in the pachyderm afterlife Jumbo was reunited with his missing ear. Nigel Milliner

Truro, Cornwall